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Project / Collection Qatar Foundation Partnership Programme Name Āl Ṣabāḥ, Aḥmad al-Jābir, Hakim of Kuwait, 1885-1950 Place Iraq, Middle East, Asia

1. IOR/R/15/1/471-549

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/471-549
Title:
File 53: Kuwait
Scope & Content:
The Kuwait subject files cover a comprehensive range of topics related to Kuwait and the surrounding area. The files contain correspondence regarding the nature and development of the British Government's involvement in Kuwait, Kuwait's foreign relations (notably with the Ottoman Empire, Najd/Sa...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic, English, French, and Turkish
Date Range:
1896-1939
Extent:
79 files and volumes (16,694 folios)

2. IOR/R/15/1/585

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/585
Title:
File 61/14 IX (D 56) Relations between Nejd and Iraq
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of letters, telegrams, reports, and memoranda relating to affairs between Najd and Iraq. The majority of the correspondence is between the Political Residency in Bushire, James More (later Harold Dickson), Political Agent in Kuwait, Gilbert Clayton, High Commissioner in Baghd...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 May 1929-30 Jun 1929
Extent:
1 volume (347 folios)

3. IOR/R/15/1/586

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/586
Title:
File 61/14 X (D 57) Relations between Nejd and 'Iraq
Scope & Content:
The volume consists of letters, telegrams, reports, and memoranda relating to affairs between Najd and Iraq. The majority of the correspondence is between Cyril Barrett, Political Resident in Bushire, Harold Dickson, Political Agent in Kuwait, Gilbert Clayton, High Commissioner in Baghdad, Cyril...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
29 Jun 1929-1 Sep 1929
Extent:
1 volume (419 folios)

4. IOR/R/15/1/587

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/587
Title:
File 61/14 XI (D 58) Relations between Nejd and Iraq
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters, telegrams, reports and memoranda relating to affairs between Najd, Iraq, and Kuwait. The majority of the correspondence is between Harold Dickson, the Political Agent in Kuwait, Cyril Barrett, the Political Resident in Bushire, Charles Prior, the Political Agent in B...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
23 Aug 1929-30 Sep 1929
Extent:
1 volume (226 folios)

5. IOR/R/15/1/590

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/590
Title:
File 61/14 XIV (D 61) Relations between Najd and Iraq
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters, memoranda, and reports concerning relations between Najd, Iraq, and Kuwait. The majority of the correspondence is between Hugh Briscoe, Political Resident at Bushire, Harold Dickson, Political Agent at Kuwait, Ibn Sa'ud, Sheikh Ahmed al-Jaber al-Sabah of Kuwait, Fran...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
19 Nov 1929-31 Dec 1929
Extent:
1 volume (271 folios)

6. IOR/R/15/1/591

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/591
Title:
File 61/14 XV (D 62) Relations between Nejd and Iraq (Akhwan Rebellion)
Scope & Content:
The volume contains letters, telegrams, memoranda, and reports pertaining to relations between Najd and Iraq. The correspondence is between Harold Dickson, Political Agent in Kuwait, Hugh Biscoe, Political Resident in Bushire, Lord Passfield, Secretary of State for the Colonies in London, Willia...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
31 Dec 1929-31 Jan 1930
Extent:
1 volume (299 folios)

7. IOR/R/15/1/592

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/592
Title:
File 61/14 XVI (D 67) Relations between Nejd and Iraq
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to relations between Najd, Kuwait and Iraq. The correspondence is between Harold Dickson, Political Agent in Kuwait, Hugh Biscoe, Political Resident in Bushire, Lord Passfield, Secretary of State for the Colonies in London, William Bond, Charge d'Affai...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
1 Feb 1930-29 Apr 1930
Extent:
1 volume (267 folios)

8. IOR/R/15/1/595

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/595
Title:
File 61/15 II (D 44) Kuwait Conference
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence relating to the adjournment, second phase, and collapse of the Kuwait Conference. The correspondence is between the Political Residency at Bushire, the Political Agencies at Kuwait and Bahrain, the High Commissioners in Baghdad and Jerusalem, the Colonial Offic...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
26 Jan 1924-24 May 1926
Extent:

1 volume (326 folios)

9. IOR/R/15/1/600

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/1/600
Title:
File 61/22 I (D 116) Bahra Agreement: meeting of tribunal under the ---, 1930. Also bound with this file is 61/23:- treaty between Nejd & Kuwait
Scope & Content:
The volume contains two separate but related subject files: on the Bahra Tribunal (folios 1-80) and on a proposed treaty between Kuwait and the Kingdom of Nejd and Hejaz (folios 81-198). Both parts consist of correspondence relating to their subjects. The correspondents in both parts include Fr...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
English
Date Range:
6 Feb 1920-12 Aug 1931
Extent:
1 volume (209 folios)

10. IOR/R/15/5/135

Reference (shelfmark):
IOR/R/15/5/135
Title:
File 2/4 I TAXATION OF SHAIKH’S DATE GARDENS.
Scope & Content:
The volume contains correspondence related to the date gardens owned by the Shaikh of Kuwait, Aḥmad al-Jābir Āl Ṣabāḥ, and the Shaikh of Mohammerah, Khaz'al al-Ka'bi, in southern Iraq. In particular, the correspondence concerns the Government of Iraq's intention to end the immunity from taxation...
Collection Area:
India Office Records and Private Papers
Languages:
Arabic and English
Date Range:
3 Nov 1914-12 Dec 1930
Extent:

1 volume (316 folios)